Sunday, November 30, 2008

Jen over at Little C's has her weekly sketch challenge up and I just had to try this one! I needed to make a birthday card for my daughter's friend's birthday next weekend and just received my new Mermaid Anya stamp from Little Craft House. Just love these little girls! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Made this stationary box for my friend Enjoli over on the Big Island. Had to put Hello Kitty all over it because she loves Hello Kitty as much as I do and her favorite color is green! Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!

Joy over at Tamiko's is having a blog candy giveaway for her 1000th post! Congrats Joy!

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

I received a couple of awards that I wanted to share with everyone and to pass on to some deserving individuals.

The first is from my BFF, Joy, who is the most wonderful friend in the world. She is truly one of the most caring and sharing people that I know. I am lucky and blessed to have her as my friend. She awarded my this cute award that I must pass on to five more recipients. Oh.....so many deserving people...so little time, lol. Okay enough with my dramatics, here are the 5 wonderful bloggers:

1. Rina at Heartfelt Stamping for being such a sweet and inspirational person. She awarded me below with two awards as well. You deserve it Rina!

2. Maria at Aloha and Mabuhay She is a local girl living in the mainland, but still carries her aloha spirit strong! She does wonderful cards and inspires me daily!

4. Teri at Big Ideas from a Little Girl. Who always has the most wonderful projects on her blog. She is one of the reasons why Joy and I started our blogs in the first place, and she is the nicest person ever!

5. Enjoli at Stamping Under the Sun Who is a fellow SU group member and whom I have recently got to meet in person! She always thinks of others and has such a warm heart. Her creations are awesome too!

These two awards were given to me by Rina at Heartfelt Stamping. I found her blog via Joy's blog, and she is the nicest and sweetest person ever! She has such wonderful ideas, so if you haven't had the opportunity to stop by her blog, please do! Thank you Rina for thinking about me, I am so honored!

The rules are:1). Display the award on your site.2). Put a link to the person who sent you the award.3). Give the award to 8 more people.4). Notify them of receiving the award.5). Advise them to pick it up at your site.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Made two different types of nugget tins for Christmas. The first one I used Sizzix's Sizzlits Winter Set #3's Reindeer and my Ridinghood Red ribbon from the SU mini catalog. The second one I used some of SU's new Christmas rub-ons and the same Ridinghood Red ribbon.

Inside is a Hello Kitty Christmas pin that I made with Shrink Art along with the nuggets for Enjoli. This is part of a little rak that I am making to send over to her on the Big Island. I just love Christmas!

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Just received my Anya stamps from Pink Poison yesterday and just had to use them! I found them at a wonderful new online store owned by Yuki called Little Craft House. Ordered them and they were here so fast! Go check out Yuki's store, she has tons of great items there!

We are going to a first birthday party tonight and I wanted to make one of those gift card holders that Teri had on her blog, Big Ideas from a Little Girl. Joy told me about it and just had to make one too!

Friday, November 21, 2008

OMGoodness, I went to visit my bff, Joy, at work yesterday and she surprised me with the greatest Hello Kitty/soccer/cupcake/pink & brown mini tree! Her boss makes these and was selling them at a craft fair yesterday and I had mentioned to Joy that I wanted to buy one. Instead of having to buy one, Joy made me one! I can't believe all the work (well I can, because Joy is the sweetest most thoughtful person that I know). I love it Joy! Will keep this baby out year round! Thank you so much Joy, your friendship means the world to me!

Enjoli over at Stamping Under the Sun is giving away some yummy blog candy for her 200th post. If you have never visited her blog, you must! She is the sweetest person and she has the most wonderful array of projects on her blog. Please go and check her out, you won't be disappointed.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Happy Tuesday everyone! As I promised, here are some of the projects that were made at the Pacific Stamper's Holiday Stamp Camp:

Brenda always makes the cutest favors for the event. Can you believe she made like 75 of these little bird houses! They were filled with little peppermints. She is totally amazing.

Kayla and Lorraine made these little treat boxes using the Holiday Trinket Stamp set and the Top Notes Bigz Die. Such a clever idea, it is kind of like the Frankie box that people were doing for Halloween.

A pic of the inside.

Jane and Michelle made these gift card holders that were so awesome! The card splits apart to show the gift card holder. The card swivels and everything, so crazy!

Pic of the inside.

This was my group, we did a Snowman Soup. Used an extra large whisper white envelope to make the bag-a-lope and scored three sides at 1". Then cut of the unscored side to creat the bag. Also used the Merry and Bright stamp set.

Monday, November 17, 2008

This weekend I got to meet one of my blog sistahs, Enjoli! She is the sweetest person and look at all the goodies that she brought over from the Big Island!

For my daughter, a cute embossed Hello Kitty tin filled with Hello Kitty goodies! My daughter just loved it! Carried the tin around all night until she fell asleep and I could tear it from her hands, lol. I was afraid that she was going to ruin it.

She also gave me this cute little scallop envelope box/basket filled with yummy cookies! So cute!

Had to show you the cute designer brads that she used for the handles.

Here is the matching card. Just love the colors and all the papers. Thank you so much Enjoli for thinking of me and my daughter. You are so sweet and I hope you liked your bag full of goodies from Joy and I.

Speaking of my BFF, she also gave me a Hello Kitty rak too! Everyone spoils me, I don't deserve all of this! She made it using the diaper fold technique and filled it with a bunch of little clear stamp sets. Thanks Joy! Love them all!

Stop by tomorrow, I will be sharing some of the projects and goodies from my SU group's Holiday Stamp Camp.

Lacey over at Hand Stamped by Lacey is having a birthday blog candy giveaway! She does the cutest cards and love to use those adorable High Hopes stamps. Go check her out!

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Okay, I can't get enough of the Stitch Clip Art. It is just too cute! My father-in-law is having a birthday next week and he loves his uke, so I decided to put Stitch in there too. Having a Stamp Camp on Sunday with my SU gals, so will probably have lots of examples to post on Monday. Until then, have a wonderful weekend and aloha!

Friday, November 14, 2008

Starting to get ready for the upcoming holiday season. Found these little candles at Walmart for $1. Decided to get 5 red and 5 white and decorate them so that I have little things to throw into gift baskets this year.

I made a zillion of these little box/bags. The base is 3 1/4"x 3 1/4" and the surrounding piece is 3"x 10. Just like the big ones, but a cute tiny version. Putting candy and a Hello Kitty pin for all of my SU group. If you are in my group and see this, just act surprised, lol.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Poor Margie at Oh Bumble is me..... She had to send me 2 raks for the montly Aloha Rak Club. She sent me one earlier and then sent me another one because the post office wouldn't deliver the first package. Well, the post office end up delivering it anyways, so I got two raks from her. What a sweet person, I felt really bad about her having to re-rak me. Here are the goodies:

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Hello fellow bloggers! I just received the most wonderful award from Teri She truly inspires me daily and was so honored that she thought about me. If you don't know Teri, she is one of the sweetest people out there. My BFF introduced me to her over a year ago and I am so lucky to know her!

Here are the rules:1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.3. Nominate 5 blogs.4. Put links to their blogs5. Leave a message for your nominees.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Saturday, November 8, 2008

For my monthly SU meeting, we had the swap theme of Faux Metal. Apparently there are two different faux metal techniques. The technique that I did was from Split Coast and it was kind of a pain. The second technique that some of the ladies did was using metallic paper and embossing on it with matching metallic powder (I really liked how this technique came out versus the one that I did).

We have a very talented group of ladies and I wanted to share their cards:

Friday, November 7, 2008

I have finally been able to participate in one of Jen's challenges over at Little C's! It has been a couple of weeks. I had to make a birthday card for my niece and wanted to do the challenge so hmm....why not combine them, lol. Enjoy and aloha!